This is driving me batty, I thought, as I tried to program in VBA. And then it struck me--"batty," the word for today! Batty is another word for crazy....
Well, we know what a bat is--but where does this use come from? I looked it up, and instantly remembered--it's from an expression "bats in the belfry." Of course, the next question is "what's a belfry?" Well, it's the place in the tower of a church (called "steeple") where the church bell is--and where there are bats.
So saying a person has"bats in the belfry" means they have bats, not brain, up above.
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